Manager, Data Analytics

This role is contingent upon a contract award.

ICF is seeking an experienced Data Analytics Manager to lead enterprise data analytics governance and AI-enabled capabilities for a complex federal technology services program. This role will support the design implementation and sustainment of data policy standards governance processes portfolio management practices data architecture data quality controls analytics products dashboards and secure data access models.

The ideal candidate has demonstrated experience leading enterprise data initiatives in regulated environments with strong technical credibility across data governance data architecture data engineering analytics data quality metadata management and responsible AI-enabled analytics. This role requires the ability to translate business operational and mission needs into governed secure and usable data capabilities that support decision-making performance management and continuous improvement.

Job Location: This position is remote within the United States.

Please note that ICF monitors employee work locations restricts access from foreign locations and IP addresses and prohibits the use of personal VPN connections.

What Youll Be Doing

• Lead enterprise data analytics governance and AI-enabled capability delivery across a complex federal technology environment.
• Develop and implement data governance policies standards operating procedures approval workflows and accountability models.
• Establish and maintain data portfolio management practices including prioritization project intake resource planning risk tracking milestone reporting and performance measurement.
• Lead the design and implementation of scalable data architecture including data pipelines data lakes data warehouses data marts data catalogs metadata repositories and data lineage capabilities.
• Define and enforce data quality standards validation rules data dictionaries scorecards issue management workflows and continuous monitoring processes.
• Guide development of analytics products dashboards reports and visualization tools that provide operational insight and support executive decision-making.
• Support advanced analytics capabilities including statistical analysis predictive modeling trend analysis root cause analysis and AI-enabled analytics.
• Ensure data sharing API integration and data access models are secure governed auditable and aligned with privacy cybersecurity and compliance requirements.
• Partner with cybersecurity engineering product and program management teams to align data platforms applications integrations and analytics capabilities with enterprise standards.
• Establish reusable templates frameworks data models ETL/ELT patterns documentation repositories and project management toolkits for data initiatives.
• Support training documentation and knowledge transfer to improve user adoption and long-term sustainment of data tools dashboards and data management practices.
• Monitor data quality data usage access patterns and analytics adoption to identify risks improvement opportunities and operational blind spots.

What You Must Have

• U.S. Citizenship required due to federal contract requirements.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal Public Trust clearance.
• Bachelors Degree
• 10 years of experience leading enterprise data analytics data governance data engineering data architecture or AI-enabled analytics initiatives.
• One active data cloud analytics AI/ML or data governance certification such as CDMP DAMA AWS/Azure/GCP data certification Microsoft Power BI certification Databricks Snowflake or equivalent

What we would like you to have:

• 8 years of experience designing implementing or managing enterprise data platforms data pipelines data warehouses data lakes data marts data catalogs or metadata management capabilities.
• 5 years of experience establishing data governance policies standards stewardship models data quality frameworks data dictionaries lineage practices or data management operating models.
• 5 years of experience delivering analytics products dashboards reporting capabilities data visualizations or executive decision-support tools.
• 5 years of experience working in federal public sector healthcare life sciences or other regulated environments with formal privacy security or compliance requirements.
• 3 years of experience supporting AI-enabled analytics predictive modeling machine learning workflows anomaly detection or advanced analytics use cases.
• 3 years of experience with data integration methods including APIs ETL/ELT pipelines data orchestration batch processing real-time ingestion or change data capture.
• 3 years of experience using data visualization analytics or business intelligence tools such as Power BI Tableau QuickSight Looker Palantir Foundry or similar platforms.
• 3 years of experience with cloud data services on AWS Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Platform or similar cloud environments.
• Experience supporting HHS NIH FDA CMS CDC or other health-focused federal environments.
• Experience building or supporting Chief Data Office functions enterprise data governance programs or data portfolio management organizations.
• Experience with data privacy data protection data classification DLP encryption RBAC ABAC just-in-time access or audit logging requirements.
• Experience aligning data capabilities with NIST FISMA HIPAA FedRAMP GDPR or other security and compliance frameworks.
• Experience developing data catalogs metadata management approaches lineage models data quality scorecards data issue repositories and data stewardship workflows.
• Experience implementing AI governance responsible AI practices model monitoring explainability human-in-the-loop review or secure AI-enabled analytics.
• Experience with SQL Python R Databricks Snowflake Redshift BigQuery Synapse Dataverse or similar data platforms and tools.
• Additional cloud data analytics AI/ML cybersecurity Agile ITIL DAMA CDMP or project management certification.

Working at ICF

Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position including but not limited to relevant work experience skills certifications and competencies that align to the specified role geographic location education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.

The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is: